Short Upper End Outing Evening 9/1

[rps]

I fished about an hour and three quarter Wednesday evening between rain squalls. Threw one of my topwaters. Caught three bass and one perch. One of the bass weighed around 4 and was close to 19 inches. I will post the picture later.

[Spinnaker]

I see you are at 999 posts and thereby are long time and valued contributor! Glad you had that top water bite. I am coming down next week and hope the summer commotion will be somewhat less. I usually keep to the dam area as I stay at a lakeside lodge in Hollister. By the way, I am also a retired (municipal) trial attorney.

[rps]

This is the fish I said I would attach later. It jumped out of the water to come back down on the lure.

Spinnaker: I hope your trip times perfectly with the beginning of the fall bite. Depends on rain and night time temps.

I love my current job, teaching, and rarely miss the law. The first two years I was out of law school I tried over 25 little trials - small claims, bankruptcy court, municipal court, as well as district court. About half had juries. I took what I could get. I miss some of that.

As my practice matured the quality of cases improved. However, the 20th through the 25th year (my last to practice) I went to trial with a jury only 4 times. What I mostly did was push paper and defend motions filed by the small armies of young lawyers firms would set upon me. I don't miss that a bit.

[buddygr53]

going to be down at the rock this weekend what area would be good

[redbud]

Now I have made up my mind,I'm going fishing .Thanks RPS.always value your reports.

[magicwormman]

Rps...............Is that one of your new Tim Hughes paintjob sticking out of his mouth? Tim is a friend and neighbor and yes, I have many of his custom paint jobs. He is quite the artist!

Glad to see that you beat your cold and are out fishing. Very happy to see some topwater action. I'm going to have to get out and chase a few. Maybe, I'll wait until after the big weekend and than get serious. Retirement is wonderful.........every day is Saturday!!!

Thanks for the great reports!

Ken Spaanem

[techo]

One more weekend and the fishermen get the lake back! RPS, you kept at it hard this summer! I think Bass Pro even made an end cap display of your bait this year.

[Champ188]

Those are sweet words indeed, Techo. Seems every summer gets longer and the lake more jammed with the party crowd. Told Donna during a recent August tournament day that I wished it was 16 degrees and snowing. On second thought, let's enjoy some good fall fishing first. I'm ready for those magnum spots to start getting on the dock corners where you risk having a rod/reel knocked out of your hands by running a spinnerbait just under the corner on the dock.

[techo]

Those are sweet words indeed, Techo. Seems every summer gets longer and the lake more jammed with the party crowd. Told Donna during a recent August tournament day that I wished it was 16 degrees and snowing. On second thought, let's enjoy some good fall fishing first. I'm ready for those magnum spots to start getting on the dock corners where you risk having a rod/reel knocked out of your hands by running a spinnerbait just under the corner on the dock.

Fish porn! I love it.

[rps]

Yes, that is the pink mouth Tim put on the House Bait #2. I guess it works at least as well as the stock color.As far as best area this weekend, may I suggest Aunt's Creek?

Edit: Techo loves to fish Aunt's Creek and the above comment was pulling his chain. I guess he had to work and didn't see it.